Heater suspending reel



Dec..22, i931.

M. SALZMAN HEATER SUSPENDING REEL Filed Sept. 6, 1928 INVENTOR M01713 Jam,

ymwswi ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 22, 1931 one!) STATES PATENT OFFICE MORRIS SALZMAN, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T UNIVERSAL PERMANENT WAVE IYIACHINE CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK Application, filed September The invention relates in general to aheater suspending reel of the type designed to support a plurality of electric heaters in position grouped about a persons head in pracfi ticing the art of permanent hair waving.

More specifically defined, the invention relates to that type of heater suspending reel in which one or more heaters are secured to one end of a flexble Suspender, the other end of. which is designed to be wound on a spring controlled drum. V

The primary object of the invention is to provide asimplified form of compound reel ;.-of the type outlined whichwill maintain a pair of heaters in horizontally spaced apart position in order to minimize tendency of the suspenders and associated heater from becoming entangled with each other even though the reelmay be suspended from a single support. I

Another ob ect of the invention and featuring economy in construction and minimizing of component parts is to provide a con- ;struction by means of which the heaters will tend to remain in whatever position they may be adjusted and in which the slack of the suspenders is quickly takenup whenever the heaters are manually elevated into their ad- --justed position and which will at the same SO'time permit of a quick lowering of the heat ers into their desired adjusted position.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will be in part. obvious from an inspection of the accompanying drawings and in part will be more fully set forth in the following particular description of one form of mechanism embodying the invention, and the invention also consists in certain new and novel features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed. 7 p

In the accompanying drawings: 7

Fig. 1 is a View in side elevation showing a preferred embodiment of the invention and withone of the side plates removed and with parts broken away to show the details of internal construction; 7

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective View showing in HEATER SUSPENDING REEL '6, 1928. Serial No. 304,375.

reduced size the reel of F igs. 1 and 2 disposed in adjusted position suspending a pair of heaters from a single support; and

Figs. 4 and 5 are detailed views in side elevation of two modified forms of the invention. Referring first to the showing in Figs. 1 to 3, there is disclosed a single sup ort 10 from which is suspended a compoun reel 11 and which in turn supports pair of heaters 12 and 13 of the type commonly used in the art of permanent hair waving.

Referring. tothe details of construction of the preferred formas particularly illustrated in Fig. 2, the reel 11 comprises a flat metallic cylindrical casing provided on opposite sides with side plates 15 and 16 and provided axially thereof with a fixed drum support or aXel 17. Loosely mounted upon the axel 17 and disposed side by side is a pair of drums l8 and 19. The drums are formed mainly of a pair of flat, flanged cup-like pressings 20 and 21 with their outstanding marginal flanges 22 in juxtaposition centrally of the V casing. The flanges and thus the drums are separated by a centrally disposed partition 23 loose on the axel. Each of the pressings is provided on its outer side-with an outstanding side plate 24 which coacts with the associated flange 22 to provide the annular drum recess in which is wound the suspenders 25 and 26. The side plates 24 are secured to the 'pzressings by means 'of fastening eyelets 2 Positioned withineach of the drums is a flat spiralspring 28 having one end secured to its associated drum and the other end secured by pin 29 to the aXel 17. This spring is arranged. so that normally it will tend to elevate its'associated" flexible suspender and the heater secured to the free end of the suspender. V l 1 In order to economize in cost of material, it is a feature of this disclosure that the spring is not of sufficient strength to raise the heater but is of sufficient strength to wind the associated suspender onto the drum when the suspender has been freed, or substantially freed, of the weight of the associated heater. The casing is provided on one side ofa plane, indicated by the line 22 of Fig. 1,

passing through the support 10 and through the aXis of the aXel with an eyelet through which the suspender 25 is threaded, and on the opposite side of this plane with an eyelet 31 through which the suspender 26 is threaded. These eyelets 30 and 81 are disposed in a vertical or vertically inclined plane and also in the plane of their associated drums, and are so arranged that they act on the sus penders to cause them to take a sharp angle shown at 32 so that the freely falling part to which the heaters are attached form a sharp angle with the portion 33 feeding off the periphery of the drum. These eyelets impose a frictional resistance at the angle to the freedom of movement of the suspenders and this frictional resistance is set so that it cooperates with the tension of the spring to prevent the weight of the heater from automatically lowering the same.

Referring to the disclosures of Figs. 4 and 5, it is noted that instead of forming the eyelets through which the suspenders are threaded in the cylindrical wall of the casing they may be formed on some other part such for instance as the bracket 34: which carry the aXel on which are mounted the drums 35 corresponding to the drums in the preferred form of the invention.

In the showing in Fig. 4, the eyelet 36 is offset from the reel or drum 35, is positioned below the same and is contained in the part of the plate 37 which is disposed at an angle to both the horizontal and vertical and through which the suspender 39 is threaded.

" In this case, the suspender is also passed about a direction changing rod 40 secured at its ends in the walls 38 and forming a second angle 41 in the suspender. Thus instead of the single angle 82 as shown in the preferred form of the invention, the portions of the suspender shown in Figs. 4 and 5 are caused to form two alternate external angles between the drum and the falling portion which supports the heater.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 5, the eyelet 42 is formed directly in the rear wall 48 of the bracket 34. It is understood that the brackets 34- are suitably secured to an overhead support in any conventional manner as by screws passed through the rear wall 43. As the hook ll which engages the top of the casing is engaged over the support 10, the reel in the form shown in Fig. 1 will fall in balanced position so that the eye lets 3031 and therefore the suspenders 25 and 26 are maintained in horizontally spaced position even though the reel as a whole is suspended from a single support.

In operation and assuming any of the forms to be suspended or secured to an overhead support, it is simply necessary for the operator to manually grasp the heaters 12 and 13 and by a lowering or lifting move ment dispose them at any desired position adjacent the head of the person under treatment, and when properly located to release manual engagement with the same. It will be understood that the operator in grasping the heaters to elevate the same will relieve the weight acting on the suspenders and the tension springs in the drums will be sufficient to take up any slack. It Will be understood that there will be no tension on the falling part of the suspender and therefore little, if any, frictional resistance at the angle formed by the eyelet or rod 10. On the contrary, should the operator desire to lower the heaters he exerts suflicient pull on the suspenders to overcome both the tension of the spring as well as the frictional resistance at the eyelet and rod and simply by pulling down on the heaters, he can exert sufiicient pull to dispose them in any desired vertically adjusted position.

When the hair waving operation is completed, the heaters are simply lifted up to an out-of-the-way position, the springs acting to draw up any slack in the loose suspenders and wind the same onto the drum. The disposing of the eyelets in the relatively offset positions herein suggested has the effect of maintaining the heaters in horizontally spaced relation and thus tends to minimize any entangling of the heaters or suspenders with each other.

I claim:

1. A reel for suspending articles in adjusted vertical position comprising a drum, means for supporting the drum substantially fixed in space at all times, a flexible suspender adapted to be wound on the drum and adapted to have an article secured to its free end, a spring acting on the drum and tending to turn the same in the direction to wind the suspender thereon, said spring being of insuflicient strength to raise the article but of suflicient strength to wind up the suspender when free of the weight of the article, an eyelet disposed between the drum and article and through which eyelet the suspender is passed, said eyelet acting on the suspender to cause it to form an angle and said eyelet acting on the suspender at said angle to provide a frictional resistance sufficient with the elevating influence of the spring to prevent the weight of the article from lowering the same.

2. A reel for suspending a pair of articles in horizontally spaced apart relation, said reel comprising a cylindrical casing provided with an aXel, a pair of flanged flat cup-shaped metal pressings disposed with their flanges in juxtaposition and each provided with a side plate coacting with the associated flange to form a drum, a pair of flexible suspenders one for each drum and adapted to be wound on its associated drum, an article secured to each suspender, each of said drums mounted on the axel for rotary movement and restrained from movement in all other directions, a pair of coiled springs, one for each drum housed Within the same with the other end secured to the axel, said casing provided with a pair of horizontally spaced eyelets, one disposed in the plane of each of the drums and through which eyelets are threaded the suspenders, and a suspending hook engaging the top of the casing for suspending the reel in balanced position with its axis fixed in space at all times and with the eyelets on opposite sides of a vertical plane passing through the axis of the axel.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination of a reel, mounted for rotary movement and otherwise substantially fixed in space at all times, a spring acting on the reel and tending to turn it in one direction, a flexible suspender adapted to be wound on the reel through the action of said spring and having one end secured to the reel and the other end falling free and adapted to have an article secured thereto and supported thereby, an eyelet disposed in fixed position between the article and reel and through which eyelet the suspender is threaded, said eyelet being offset horizontally a fixed distance from a vertical line passing through the axis of the reel acting on the Suspender to cause it to form a sharp angle and to provide a frictional resistance at the angle to the freedom of movement of the suspender through the eyelet.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 20th day of July, A. D. 1928.

MORRIS SALZMAN. 

